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State television earlier showed the battered black boxes, saying their information could be downloaded and analyzed. There were 176 people on board the aircraft - 167 passengers (including two Ukrainians) and nine crew (all Ukrainians). Earlier on Thursday a USA official, citing an extensive review of satellite data, said Washington had concluded with a high degree of certainty that anti-aircraft missiles brought the plane down. (more...)

According to records, she has not paid her $ 250,000 contributions so far, despite using her massive social media to raise millions for her own reelection, Fox News reported . "How do my Republican friends want the American people, their constituents, and history to remember them?" "It always depends on the individual members, so I think I don't think about it one way or the other", Bustos said of Ocasio-Cortez's decision to withhold fees. (more...)

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that everyone responsible for the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner must be punished. Cracking down on the protesting public - that is also driven by domestic woes - is not going to help the regime. Maple Leaf Foods chief executive Michael McCain said his colleague's wife and son were among the 57 Canadians who died. (more...)

He cited the resumption of lethal military aid to Ukraine for defense against Russia-backed separatists, Trump's withdrawal from an arms control accord with Moscow and tests of a new US intermediate-range cruise missile. "So let's not screw it up", McConnell said. However, Amash, many House Democrats and some Republicans in Congress said the White House has failed to produce sufficient evidence to back up the claim. (more...)

At the same time, the sources asserted that although the USA forces knew about the attack, they didn't know what the nature of the attack would be. "But also the situation in terms of what we're dealing with here". In a briefing to parliament, Hossein Salami, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, said the missiles it fired last Wednesday on Iraqi bases hosting United States troops were not aimed at killing American personnel. (more...)

Bernie Sanders has denied telling Elizabeth Warren , his rival in the race to become the Democrats' candidate in the U.S. presidential election, he did not think a woman could win the White House. What she's saying: "Bernie and I met for more than two hours in December 2018 to discuss the 2020 election, our past work together and our shared goals", Warren said. (more...)

Following a mass evacuation of some 14,000 residents from their homes in Germany's Dortmund , two unexploded bombs from World War II discovered in the city were defused by experts on Sunday. Last September a 250-kilo bomb was made safe in Hanover, with 15,000 people evacuated. Although it was planned in advance, city authorities called it "one of the largest evacuations in the post-war period". (more...)

Diego , part of the Chelonoidis hoodensis species that lives on the Galapagos island of Espanola, was one of the tortoises brought to the USA between 1928 and 1933 and was later placed into the Charles Darwin Research Station for protection after the species was declared critically endangered in the 1960s, according to the San Diego Zoo . (more...)

He confirmed that the White House had consulted the Justice Department ahead of the January 3 drone strike that killed Quds Force commander Soleimani and several others near Baghdad airport. "Azadi Square. Death to the dictator!", one woman yells out in Farsi. A pool of blood is seen on the ground. "Oh my God, she's bleeding nonstop!" one person in the video shouts, according to the wire service. (more...)

Meanwhile, Haldimand County says the river has peaked in some smaller communities in Caledonia, York and Cayuga. The flood warning in Robinson Township expires Monday afternoon, January 20. French Broad River At Blantyre affecting Henderson and Transylvania Counties.Runoff from previous heavy rain will result in the river remaining above flood stage. (more...)

The 57-year-old said that he had previously called for tougher action on the issue and pushed for automatic expulsion for anyone found to be anti-Semitic. Ahead of the official launch, he said: "We have to rebuild people's trust in Labour as a force for good and real change. He positioned us in the right place on anti-austerity but we lost the election and now he is stepping down", he said. (more...)

Many Catholic theologians and abuse experts rebuked him, saying he was trying to shift the blame away from the Church. "I don't feel able to put myself before God with this decision", he said. In a joint introduction, both men say they could not remain silent about the October synod, which at times led to clashes between progressive and conservative Catholic media outlets, underscoring the polarization in the 1.3 billion-member Church. (more...)

New South Wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast Gospers Mountain fire on Sydney's north-western outskirts, which has been burning out of control for nearly three months. Four of the victims were firefighters. Thousands of people joined climate protests in nine cities across Australia on Friday, according to The Washington Post . (more...)

As rain and snow fell, which was followed by sun, people gathered in the north plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The Ukraine International Airlines flight was shot down by an Iranian missile moments after taking off from Tehran on Wednesday. (more...)

Calhoun will oversee Boeing's legal strategy as it deals with dozens of lawsuits by families of the 346 people who died in crashes of the 737 Max jetliner. In a March 2017 message, the chief technical pilot wrote several of his colleagues to "stress the importance of holding firm that there will not be any type of simulator training required". (more...)

The general would be hard for Tehran to replace, he said. "When our community here heard this news it was thrilled", Sharif said. Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton reportedly formally presented the option of assassinating Soleimani and other Revolutionary Guard leaders in May, after the United States deployment of a carrier strike group to the Middle East and a series of tanker sabotage attacks which Washington blamed on Tehran. (more...)

Opponents say pulling money that was approved by Congress for other military projects in order to pay for border wall construction is an abuse of power. Trump tapped his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, to help speed up completion of the wall, but the project has been plagued by delay. The White House was then sued by the Texas border city of El Paso and the Border Network for Human Rights, an advocacy group, that argued there was no "emergency" requiring defence funds to be ... (more...)

The forecast said waves would be about 10 feet Saturday, putting the surf height around 30 feet. "Stay away from these risky surf conditions", he said. Authorities rescued the father and he is expected to survive. "We're obviously hoping for the best, but at this point it's very challenging". A high surf warning was in place until 8pm Saturday for North Oregon Coast, Central Oregon Coast, and South Washington Coast. (more...)

US President Donald Trump on Monday praised Iranian student demonstrators who refused to trample on the American flag during a. The comments came after a Politico report appeared indicating that Sanders supporters and substitutes had received a script to tell voters in Iowa that they expressed their support for Mrs. (more...)

Iran retaliated with missile strikes on USA military positions in Iraq, then hours later, Iran fired on Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752, killing all 176 on board, the majority of them en route to Canada via Kiev. "The world knows Iran is a risky state, but the world found a path to contain it; not flawless but by most accounts it was the right direction", McCain tweeted. (more...)